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News A Dutch court has sentenced two hackers to prison for breaking into millions of computers worldwide and using the hijacked systems in online crimes. In keeping with Dutch court custom, the hackers were not identified. [01 Feb 2007]
UK the poor cousin of Europe's business travel
News Airports have done their very best to court the mobile worker, however, with Wi-Fi hotspots proliferating in departure lounges nationwide. According to research from Benchmark Reporting, conducted for HP, the Dutch are the keenest to go mobile... [09 Aug 2005]
iPod tax 'could be on the way'
News Fujitsu-Siemens was recently subject to a German court case which saw the PC maker forced to make a contribution of €12 per user to a rights holders' organisation. The Dutch government is being lobbied on the subject and a rights holders group... [29 Apr 2005]
Microsoft forced to pay up after anti-spyware blocks legit sites
News I sent them a letter saying I would see them in court. I don't think that without the court they would have changed [the software].it's hard to get Microsoft on its knees," Wiggers said. A Dutch company has forced Microsoft to pay damages after the... [24 Feb 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.01.05
Round-Up Appearing at Horseferry Magistrates Court earlier this week Pierson pleaded guilty to charges of malicious communication and causing a public nuisance after he sent emails to relatives of missing persons caught up in the tsunami disaster... [07 Jan 2005]
Computer club forces Dell to change sales policies
News A Dutch computer club has taken computer giant Dell to court and forced it to make changes to its 'unfair' conditions of sale. The HCC decided to take Dell to court after complaints about wrong or incomplete deliveries when members had already... [07 Jul 2004]
Open source's €944 victory over Microsoft
News The Linux minnow might feel slightly aggrieved though - the princely sum the Dutch court ordered Microsoft to pay as recompense is just €944. The Dutch court ruled that since Lindows does business outside Benelux under its original Windows-baiting... [02 Jun 2004]
Microsoft's "legal assault" on Lindows: The verdict is in
News The dispute - which has raged on both sides of the Atlantic and seen Lindows hit with a €100,000-a-day fine for breaking a Dutch court order - looks to have been brought to a close in Europe. Judge John Coughenour, however, disagreed that the cases... [06 Apr 2004]
Europe tells US: 'Hands off our flyers' data'
News And if none of that gets the thumbs-up from Europe, the resolution said that EC could be taken to court. The European Parliament has since upped the stakes, with a civil liberties body, headed up by a Dutch MEP, Johanna Boogerd-Quaak, drafting a... [22 Mar 2004]
Lindows takes Microsoft to court to stop court cases
News The court filing states: "Knowing that full compliance with [a legal decision in the Netherlands, whereby Lindows must block site access to Dutch users] is impossible without shutting down completely.to recognise and enforce the decision would be... [16 Mar 2004]
€100,000 a day - the price for messing with Microsoft
News The open-source software maker said that it has received papers from Microsoft asking a Dutch court to fine it $123,000 per day for not blocking visitors to its website from the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. [15 Mar 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.02.04
Round-Up The lawyers representing Apple Computer have also urged the High Court to rule that the lawsuit should be heard in California rather than in London, which is Apple Corps's preferred venue. Still, this can only do good things for the credibility of... [27 Feb 2004]
Kazaa HQ, Oz universities raided in piracy crackdown
News MIPI obtained an Anton Pilar order - which allows a copyright holder to enter a premises to search for and seize material that breaches copyright without alerting the target through court proceedings - yesterday from Justice Murray Wilcox, and... [06 Feb 2004]
KPN and Hutch resolve 3 funding row
News Hutchison's share will now rise to 80 per cent - NTT DoCoMo will own the remainder - and the deal avoids a potentially messy court case that was due to begin today in London. Both sides will now avoid expensive and embarrassing court proceedings. [10 Nov 2003]
Scientologists lose landmark hyperlink case
News On Friday, the Dutch Court of Appeal in The Hague, Netherlands, denied the Scientologists' latest appeal in an online copyright dispute that dates back to 1995. In denying the appeal, the court also overturned two previous rulings that lower courts... [09 Sep 2003]
